Seattle Mag
Women in Seattle’s City Council Race
The general election could yield the first ever female majority
Much has been made of Seattle’s first-ever council race featuring seven of nine positions selected by geographic district. With 45 candidates, it certainly yielded a clamorous primary. But the general election holds the potential for another first: a female majority. Of the 18 candidates on the ballot, 10 are women, and five led in the…
New IKEA Store, Asthmatic Sea Otters & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Let the demolition begin. IKEA begins demolition today—September 17—to make room for its 406,000-square-foot facility in downtown Renton. The store—which will be built across the street from its current Seattle-area location—comes with 1,600 parking spaces. Customers can continue shopping at the current location until construction is complete in spring 2017. The age-old question that has…
Why You Should Take a Road Trip to La Conner
Specialty shops, museums and art galleries abound in this small, but historic town
Where: La Conner, about 70 miles north of Seattle. Bordered by the Swinomish Channel, the historic town is small in size but big in character, with no shortage of specialty shops, museums and art galleries. WHY: The fourth annual Fall Boneshaker bicycle festival on 10/31 (boneshakerbikefest.com) for a spooky, scenic tour of Skagit Valley…
What to eat during Seattle Made Week
Inaugural event features exclusive eats, such as a 2-hour salad at Trellis Restaurant
How dedicated are you to the local movement? Beginning Sept. 19, you’ll have an entire week to show your support of all things made and manufactured in Seattle. And while we appreciate locally made jewelry and furniture, we’d like to focus on the locally curated goods of the edible variety. The first annual Seattle Made…
What Women Should Know About Fibroids
Fibroids are common and benign, yet largely mysterious and often complicating
“I can’t find your cervix,” said my doctor to me, during a routine pelvic exam in the fall of 2012. I was confused. I was a healthy, active 31-year-old and had made this OB/GYN appointment as a precaution to ensure that my body was healthy enough for pregnancy—I wasn’t really worried. To my surprise, it…
Helping Kids Have Fun at the Hospital
Mary Bridge child life specialists help kids understand and feel less anxious about the hospital
One bad childhood trip to the hospital can set you up for a lifetime of trauma. So when 7-year-old Kyla, who has an intense fear of needles, needed her blood drawn at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, its unique staff of child life specialists stepped in. They bonded with Kyla by playing with her, walking her…
New Cancer Treatments Reduce Radiation Risks
Two local health centers are bringing state-of-the-art solutions to very specific problems
Once small breast cancer tumors have been detected in a screening, they aren’t easy to find in order to remove them, but new technology, locally only available at The Polyclinic, more precisely targets those tumors. Called radioactive seed localization, the method involves implanting the tumor with a rice-grain-size “seed” that emits a very low amount…
Monsoon’s Bar Director Shares his Cocktail Secrets
Monsoon’s Jon Christiansen deploys humble vinegars in his zippy cocktails
Jon Christiansen started working behind the bar at Tulio’s in the early ’90s, learning to sling classic cocktails such as grasshoppers and stingers. He went on to accumulate bartending experience at establishments ranging from trendy clubs to upscale eateries, and eventually found a home with Eric and Sophie Banh’s restaurants (Monsoon, Monsoon Bellevue, Ba Bar…
View a Replica of The Great Northern Train Tunnel
A local artist re-creates Seattle’s historic Great Northern train tunnel
Bertha isn’t the only tunneler in town. Seattle artist Rick Araluce is known for his miniature-scale sculptures of haunting interior spaces as well as the giant-scale sets he creates for the Seattle Opera. Now he’s embarking on The Great Northern, a less than full-scale but still massive replica of the 111-year-old, 1-mile-long tunnel that still…
Ethan Stowell’s Goldfinch Tavern Wows with its View and Food
Ethan Stowell sets his sights on taking downtown hotel dining to new heights
Inside the Four Seasons hotel, Ethan Stowell’s newest restaurant, Goldfinch Tavern, benefits from what may be the greatest waterfront view in downtown Seattle. Floor-to-ceiling windows enlarge Elliott Bay, the Great Wheel and the Olympic Mountains to appear so close they could roll off the water and join your table for dinner. The view is an…
Locally Grown Barley Means Truly Local Beer
Kendall Jones raises a glass to the new, micro-local terroir of Washington beer
The terms “small” and “local” are pervasive in conversations about the virtues of craft beer, but until recently, no craft beer was entirely small or local. It burns the ears of craft beer aficionados to hear that the primary ingredient in the suds they love was developed at the behest of the mega breweries they…
The Must List: ‘Bootycandy,’ Fashion Film at Butch Blum
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must SeeBold Play Bootycandy at Intiman Theatre Festival(9/16 to 10/3, times vary) Through a life-spanning patchwork of scenes and sketches, this semi-autobiographical dark comedy by Robert O’Hara tells one man’s story of growing up black and gay. Witness his obsession with Michael Jackson, liberal use of Jheri Curl and awkward romantic encounters in this satire…